How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

[ryan74]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

i dont think it is dirt between the glass and those are the best pics i can get.
there are no other spots on the screen that look like this.
when i did get screen to light up before there was a fuzzy rainbow effect in that part of screen and the rest lit up white.

[mattpd]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

Does the buffer that lines up with it look messed up?

[ryan74]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

the buffer that lines up with it fried(ic) when i tried to isolate the bad buffer board.
before i tried to isolate useing jumper sc50 the screen would not come on.

im an amateur but to me it seems like a bad screen.
the pics above have the protective glass filter removed.

[mattpd]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

Sorry about your tv. I wasn't aware that a panel could fail that way. I will have to keep a closer eye out when picking them up on Craig's list.

[ryan74]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

well im not 100% the panel is bad but it looks like it to me.
it seems to be between the 2 layers of glass.

the drawing is aproximatly what it looks like with high magnification.
each dark line (pic1) is actually 3 lines(pic2) very close together.
the vertical line(short?) looks to cross several of these wires.

unless someone can say for sure the panel is good i think im going to junk it

[drpj23]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

That's weird. It looks like bad pixels....though very rare on plasmas. If you can confirm that is below the glass which contains the gases for a plasma, then that is not supposed to be there. Doesn't look like what I have seen (mine more like a burnt small smd).

On a side note: The only reason I found that bad part of the panel was because I was following one of Panasonic's guides and one of their reasoning was a bad panel.

[randtek]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

It is a bad panel.

[tom66]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

How does the panel go bad on these plasmas? Factory contamination?

[ryan74]

Re: How likely is a cracked panel to short out boards?

That's weird. It looks like bad pixels....though very rare on plasmas. If you can confirm that is below the glass which contains the gases for a plasma, then that is not supposed to be there.

It is definatly under the glass. It looks like 2 glass sheets glued together with wires between them and seems to be under the first sheet(not the tinted filter).
I just got done breaking down the tv for parts today.
Thanks for the help.